Archive for April 2024

CCLT is pleased that two further projects on which it has been working in recent years will very soon come to Cornwall Council for final planning determination. These will provide 23 homes for local people in St Dennis and 15 affordable homes for locals in Lanivet. The Lanivet Housing Working Party has strongly backed CCLT…

St Keverne HWP together with Cornwall CLT and its architects Mitchells hosted a community consultation event in late January to show and discuss draft plans and proposals for its 18-homes scheme on land off Lemon St. with interested local residents. As a result, we are working with our consultants to revise and improve the proposals…

Tintagel Housing Working Party (HWP), supported by CCLT and the Parish Council, has identified a site which they hope will provide up to 30 homes for local people in the village. The working party is planning a housing need survey and local consultation to gauge the level of community support for the project. Site surveys…

A major step forward in this complex and urgently needed project to create 12 homes through the self-build route on a site in Old Town with the submission of the Reserved Matters Application for the site to the Council for the Isles of Scilly Planning Department in late March. This work completed by KTA Architects,…

As a charity Cornwall CLT is non-Party political. However, we continue our series of sharing relevant manifestos and Campaigns from within the CLH sector. CLT Network: Community Land Trusts Manifesto 2024 The CLT Network has published it’s 2024 Community Land Trusts Manifesto with policies that would enable community led developments to account for at least…

Work has commenced at Vicarage Flats in the centre of St Ives this spring. Congratulations to St Ives Community Land Trust which has heroically navigated a complex and expensive predevelopment process to now start on site to develop six flats for local people, next to the Guildhall. The project brings back into local benefit 4…

The final version of a whitepaper written by Laura Parker-Tong of the European Community Land Trust and Thieme Hennis and Thijs Gieben of And The People has now been published.  Andrew George at CCLT contributed to the research. The full paper is available HERE >> Here’s a brief summary in video.    

Four Seas is developing a co-housing community at Carveth Farm near Helston. Jackie Carpenter, who is well known throughout the co-housing community for her successful work in establishing new co-housing communities, is leading the initiative. So far, the group has tidied the site, developed food-growing areas, and built two log cabins at the centre of…

Congratulations to Three Seas Cornwall – a new community benefits society – which recently secured Looe Coastguard Flats from Cornwall Council and which will renovate them for the benefit of the local community. They were featured in local media and supported by those who successfully secured the Coastguard Cottages at Cawsand for the same purpose.…